Issue 1: In this issue

Editorial

Competition

Alanna Blake:

On Being Angry

Advice to a Would-be Entrepreneur

Tony Cloke:

Three untitled Haiku

Bill Greenwell:

Amy, Amy

Oh Woes, Thou Run Thick!

A Poison Tree

Matt Harvey:

She Said to Him

If Love

Great Conversions of Our Time

Helena Nelson:

The Normal Child

Submission Guidelines

Man and Nature: A Meditation

Bob Newman:

I just couldn't resist

The Bittern

Two Clerihews

D A Prince:

Mirror, Mirror

A Million Miles from Vogue

George Herbert Downs Tools

Andy Proudfoot

Open Letter

George Simmers:

Light

Frances Thompson

A Lady's First Sighting of Michelangelo's David

Announcement

John Whitworth

The Things She Says

Captain W E Johns Rallies Us in the Dark Days of the War

 

 

  

 

Captain W.E. Johns Rallies Us in the Dark

Days of the War

 

We’ll beat the Huns,

Said Captain Johns.

You know the chap,

The Biggles chap. 

Remember how

We beat them once. 

They had the guns,

They had the men,

We beat them then,

We’ll beat them now. 

We’ll beat the swine 

With British grit

And British spine.

We love a scrap,

We’ll never quit,

No bleeding shit,

So cut the crap,

Said Captain Johns. 

You know the chap,

The Biggles Chap

 

John Whitworth

 

(Previously published in 'Quadrant')